Sentences with phrase «below middle school level»

Students who are reading below middle school level or with limited English proficiency.

This will be the first time foreign languages have been offered below the middle school level in the MGSD.

Not exact matches

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

The reference was to the Department of Education's plan to reserve 25 percent of seats at 17 middle schools for kids who score below grade level on state exams.

City school results still fall well below state proficiency levels but sit within the middle of the pack among the five biggest urban districts in the state.

Given that success, he said, it makes no sense to limit his organization to opening middle schools that have to struggle to rescue fifth - graders who start two or three years below grade level.

By middle school, many low - income students of color in San Jose's poorest neighborhoods have been tracked into a vicious cycle of failure, having fallen well below grade level and lacking the support they need to overcome their disconnect from school.

Keep in mind that about a third of TMA's entering ninth - graders start off at or below a fifth - grade level of proficiency in math and reading, and come from 50 to 60 different middle schools across Washington, Pardo adds.

As a middle school teacher, too frequently I have students with reading skills far below grade level.

Yet, far too many middle school students are achieving below grade level and fail to catch up with their peers.

Meanwhile 17 percent of middle - class and wealthier students not eligible for school lunch read Below Basic in 2015, unchanged from 2013, but a six point decline over levels 13 years ago.

A study published in June 2012 evaluated five middle schools in western Washington to answer the question, «How can we help middle school students whose reading skills are two or more years below grade level?»

Often coming to my middle school classroom reading years below grade level and with their own personal struggles, my students deserve more.

Influence state leaders to build the capacity of districts and schools by providing resources for students reading below grade level in middle grades and high schools.

Harmon and Wood (2001) implemented a teaching strategy for use with middle school students who were reading below grade level.

He is a middle schooler, reading 2 years below grade level.

Her work in the Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI) involved helping school leaders and teacher teams to implement school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade School Quality Initiative (MSQI) involved helping school leaders and teacher teams to implement school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade school leaders and teacher teams to implement school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade school wide systems of assessment in literacy, integrate vocabulary instruction across content areas, and plan, develop and teach strategic reading lessons for students reading below grade level.

Fifty five percent of Latino male middle - schoolers and 45 percent of their black males counterparts had math scores below Levels III and IV of the state's standardized tests.

Many MMC students are first generation college students placed in the program due to a variety of factors including repetition of a grade in elementary or middle school, below grade level reading and / or math test scores, or significant attendance problems.

In fact, 80 percent of the students at Destiny Middle School in Tacoma started the school year reading up to five years below grade level, according to the nationally - normed Scholastic Reading InveSchool in Tacoma started the school year reading up to five years below grade level, according to the nationally - normed Scholastic Reading Inveschool year reading up to five years below grade level, according to the nationally - normed Scholastic Reading Inventory.

In one urban middle school, conversations about improving student achievement focused mostly on sending «bubble kids» (whose results fell just below cut scores for proficiency levels) to tutoring or after - school programs (Horn, Kane, & Wilson, 2015).

Their collection showcased elementary and middle school content, great for students below reading level or who wish to read to their siblings.

During the past 3 decades, a broad national consensus has emerged identifying poverty - related disparities in child development and school readiness as a critical public health problem.1, 2 Children growing up in poverty fall behind their middle - class peers in development from the time they say their first words, usually shortly after their first birthday.3 In a 2009 population - based analysis, 4 40 % of low - income eighth graders performed below the basic level for their age group in reading.

For example, a 2013 study demonstrated that even students with low blood lead levels — below the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for «blood lead level of concern» — during early childhood were less likely than students with no discernable blood level levels (BLL) to reach proficiency in standardized tests in elementary and middle school.